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Robert is a Minnesota Newspaper Association award-winning Sports Editor at the Detroit Lakes Tribune. Williams worked prior as the Sports Editor in Perham for the Focus, a Forum Communications newspaper, from 2010-14.

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Detroit Lakes jumped out to a 13-0 lead over Perham in wrestling Friday night and extended that lead to 20-9, but the Yellowjackets rallied to stifle and Laker scoring midway through the match going on to win handily, 41-20. Brandon Lueders was the only Perham wrestler to get on the board in the first four matches. He pinned Austin Soyring at 3:26 to cut the DL lead to 13-6. Josh Werner followed up Lueders with a 14-11 decision over Zach Baker to narrow the Laker lead even closer at 13-9. DL's Parker Jackson and Brandon Dahring got the Lakers final points of the dual.

DETROIT LAKES-- Perham gymnasts placed three of the top five all-around finishers, led by Satera Montella's runner-up score of 36.8, to defeat section rival and state-ranked Detroit Lakes by a wide margin of 144.25-140.8. "Big score in the section," Head Coach Charlie Fleck said.

The Perham girls basketball team (4-10) dropped a pair of games over the weekend, a 64-49 defeat at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Friday night and a Saturday afternoon loss to Bismarck (N.D.), 61-58. Perham fell behind by 17 in the first half at D-G-F and went into the break down 37-23. "We dug ourselves too big of a hole tonight," Head Coach John Gullingsrud said.

The New London-Spicer boys basketball team gave the #4-2A Perham Yellowjackets what they needed, an actual contest, after Perham cruised through its past two games over D-G-F and Park Rapids by a margin of 153-55. The Saturday victory over the Wildcats of 61-47 was the closest margin of victory for Perham in a six-game win streak since their only loss of the season to Ellsworth in the Worthington Tournament finals Dec. 28. "It was a great game for us," Perham Head Coach Dave Cresap said.

New York Mills heavyweight Max Carlson came up with a big pin to break a 31-all tie in the final match leading the Eagles to a 37-31 victory over Barnesville. NY Mills had a much easier time getting by Browerville/Eagle Valley by a score of 46-28. Tyler Ehnert, Maison Roberts and Andrew Mindermann all won by fall in a stretch of the match where the final 11 bouts were decided by forfeit or fall. Carlson moved up to 220 and pinned Jake Gaida to finish the match. Versus Barnesville, the Eagles led the entire match until a forfeit at 220 pounds set up Carlson's match-sealing pin. Gunner Flyn

PERHAM -- An exploratory committee has been formed to deliberate the demolition and replacement of the baseball grandstand at Krueger Field in Perham. The committee is made up of 15 officials from the city, school, utility and local business members, athletic association members and the media. Three inner committees were formed at the meeting and will remain open to new members: a steering committee: this group would oversee all phases of the process including media, contracting, schedule, budget etc.; a design and construction committee and a fundraising committee. The city owns the region

Both Perham and Frazee juggled lineups, as they renewed a heated wrestling rivalry Tuesday night in Perham. The Hornets managed to put enough points on the board late in the match to avoid the almost assured 12 points from Perham studs Jesse Hein and Cody Nylander in a 34-28 victory. "It was a fun match to watch," Perham Head Coach Robb Moser said. "For the diehard wrestling fan, it had a state tournament feel." The Hornets took an early 12-0 lead on shutout decisions by Byron Byer over Elliott Werner, 6-0, and Austin Skillings over Sam Pirrotta, 7-0.

Any doubts about the legitimacy of the young, but still defending state champion, Perham gymnastics team, ranked #3-1A, are beginning to wane as the team continues to stockpile victories. The Yellowjackets finished in first place out of nine teams at the Clemensen Invitational at Princeton High School Saturday, Jan. 14, thanks to top finishes in three of the four events and the all-around competition. Perham combined score of 141.800 was a over three points ahead of second place St.

Jesse Hein, Cody Nylander and Luke Sailer all went undefeated at the Rick Lee Wrestling Invitational in Bemidji Saturday leading the Yellowjackets to a second place finish. Perham senior heavyweight Hein improved to 23-0 on the season winning three matches in a variety of ways. Hein had little trouble in his opening match pinning Terrance Horton, of Blackduck/Cass Lake-Bena/Indus, at 42 seconds. Hein dominated Aitkin's Cooper Blau for a major decision, 17-4, to advance to the finals where he met a familiar foe in Alex Yeager of Badger/Greenbush-Middle River.